Quotes About Attention

All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.

I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.

If there is anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

If you don't concentrate, you'll end up on your rear.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Some people make spectacles of themselves with a couple of glasses.

The little foxes that spoil the vines.

Little things affect little minds.

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

The world, like an accomplished hostess, pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.